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Notes from the test stand.

Programme updates from the team building India's reusable launch vehicles — propulsion campaigns, infrastructure, vehicle architecture and the thinking behind it.

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Abyom engine during a vertical hot-fire test
Propulsion·

Inside the AbyoKalaM hot-fire campaign

How a bootstrapped test facility in India runs repeat hot fires on the AbyoKalaM engine family — and what each firing teaches us about reusability.

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Abyom rocket engine test facility
Infrastructure·

Building an indigenous rocket engine test facility

Access to test infrastructure is the real bottleneck for private launch in India. So we built our own — stand, plumbing, instrumentation and safety procedure.

Abyom RV fleet: Reusable Suborbital Rocket, Small RLV and Medium RLV
Vehicles·

The RV fleet: our roadmap to reusable launch

The Reusable Sounding Rocket, Small RLV and Medium RLV are not three products. They are three steps of one argument: that orbit can become a schedule instead of a privilege.

Vertical engine test stand at Abyom
Perspective·

Why India needs launch on demand

Indigenous, on-demand access to space is an industrial capability — for earth observation, communications, defence and research alike.

Working on an engine, a component or a qualification campaign? The test facility takes external programmes.